TGI Friday 
Friday, July 31, 2009, 02:34 PM
Posted by Hazel Cooke
Today has been busy, a typical Friday morning. It is all hands to the deck on a Friday as this is usually the busiest morning of the week. As soon as breakfast is cleared away and that can take until 10 o'clock we all get on with servicing the rooms in preparation for our next guests. Most of our weekly guests leave on Friday and we look forward to welcoming our weekend guests, its pretty much the only way we have of distinguishing a weekday from the weekend, that and of course we do a get an extra hour in bed at weekends as breakfast is served later. With all the beds to strip and remake, the resultant washing to get on with and then all the rooms have a really good clean, it is much easier to do this when guests are not staying in the room. The laundry room looks like a great white mountain with all the towels and sheets piled high. We do some of the washing ourselves, towels mainly because we like them to be nice and fluffy but we now use a professional laundry for the sheets and duvet covers. It is hard to believe that at one time we did used to wash everything and John ironed it all. In theory we should now have more time but you never do something else always creeps into fill the space you have created. Now it is off to stock up on supplies for the weekend, a quick trip to the oatcake shop in Burslem to stock up on oatcakes (I will tell you more about oatcakes in a future blog) and then off into town to visit our butchers and bacon shop. Then back home in time to greet our guests arriving for the weekend.

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